Saturday, March 07, 2015
Farewell, My Friend
May Our Eternal Priest bring you to the Father and bless us with His Spirit, bringing us to Him so that one day we meet again in Paradise.
Αἰωνία ἡ μνήμη, Memory Eternal.
Friday, March 06, 2015
Thursday, March 05, 2015
New Book on the Spiritual Teachings of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
Insight Scoop: New: "Communion with Christ According to St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross"
Now available from Ignatius Press:
Communion with Christ According to St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross By Sister M. Regina Van den Berg
Now available from Ignatius Press:
Communion with Christ According to St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross By Sister M. Regina Van den Berg
Ho Hum
Vatican Insider: Approval of new statutes has produced neither winners nor losers by ANDREA TORNIELLI
The internal debate over the powers to be attributed to the Secretariat headed by Cardinal Pell has led to a balanced result. Which can still be improved
The internal debate over the powers to be attributed to the Secretariat headed by Cardinal Pell has led to a balanced result. Which can still be improved
Martyrdom in the 21st Century
Chiesa: Saint Milad Saber and His Twenty Companions
Their story is the same as the Acts of the Martyrs of the first centuries. Killed by the sword of Islam out of pure hatred for their Christian faith
by Sandro Magister
Their story is the same as the Acts of the Martyrs of the first centuries. Killed by the sword of Islam out of pure hatred for their Christian faith
by Sandro Magister
Wednesday, March 04, 2015
Tuesday, March 03, 2015
Monday, March 02, 2015
Sunday, March 01, 2015
Fr. Theodore Jurewicz
Icons
From 2013: New York's answer to the Sistine Chapel: Priest spends six years covering every wall of his church in vivid byzantine style religious paintings
(also published at NY Daily News)
St. Stephen Orthodox Church, Lackawanna, New York
From 2011: ICON-IC: Priest working on New Haven's church murals for 28 years (video)
Fresco Project
New Gračanica Monastery
Photo and photo
ByzCath thread with links
Iconographers - Linkedn
From 2013: New York's answer to the Sistine Chapel: Priest spends six years covering every wall of his church in vivid byzantine style religious paintings
(also published at NY Daily News)
St. Stephen Orthodox Church, Lackawanna, New York
From 2011: ICON-IC: Priest working on New Haven's church murals for 28 years (video)
Fresco Project
New Gračanica Monastery
Photo and photo
ByzCath thread with links
Iconographers - Linkedn
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Psychosomatic Unity Realized in Prayer
Stand, Bow, Prostrate: The Prayerful Body of Coptic Christianity
Coptic monastics were indeed wary of the hesychastic practices of the Jesus Prayer that developed later in the Eastern churches, and it may seem that such suspicion is somehow a teaching against engaging the body in formalized asceticism – for example, of sitting in silence and using the recommended breathing exercises. Yet the suspicion of hesychastic practice is not, in fact, a suspicion of the use of the body in prayer, but instead simply a rejection of the complicated system of hesychasm. Fr. Matta el-Meskeen, for instance, in his book on Orthodox Prayer Life, comments that hesychasm made the method of unceasing prayer lose its former simplicity. He claims that the method of unceasing prayer “shifted from its ascetical position as a humbling practice by itself to a mystical position, with programs, stipulations, technical and mechanical bases, degrees, objectives, results…”[4] Instead, he prefers the simplicity of praying while working and in common human duties, which is likewise a practice found in both Eastern and Western Christian monasticism, stating that this allows for God to share in human work, and helps the person to discern God’s calling in regards to work.[5] It is believed that work by itself does not help to save a monk or nun from distractions and temptations, but that the necessity of repeating short prayers along with working helps to keep the mind occupied. Labor mingled with constant prayer, whether short formulas of Psalms or the Jesus Prayer, allows the person to express his love for God continuously. This practice of praying unceasingly while working became one of the accepted forms of prayer in the Coptic Church.
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